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“I think everyone just couldn’t believe he had slept through it all. Everyone was trying to be quite but in the photos you can just see them wetting themselves laughing.

“Then suddenly the whole crowd started singing ‘he’s not waking up, he’s never going to wake up’ so I started filming. It got louder and louder and the guy did wake up. Everyone started cheering for him.

“He didn’t look phased at all, he just had a little look around and then had another swig of his drink. I don’t think he realised he was at the centre of what was going on.

After 40 minutes he's surrounded by around 60 people (Image: India Barford/Mercury Press)

“After he woke up, the crowd started to disperse and he just started to walk off. I ran after him to show him the photos and he said they were ‘cool’ but we never saw him again after that.

“It makes such a great sequence of shots. You see the first one and think ‘oh that’s funny’ but nobody expects it to build up to so many people.

“I knew I found them hilarious because I was there which is why I posted them on Facebook but I never expected so many people to find them funny and share them.”